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10 Dec 2016 4:58:46am

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In December 2014 Lake Macquarie is hosting, for the first time, the International Children’s Games. This is the first time a city in the southern hemisphere has hosted the International Games, which have been going since 1968. How many people know about these games where children are representing their country? Does Tracey Holmes know they exist? Where is the sponsorship, where is the broadcasting on TV and Radio. Why then is there such prejudice against children. Why are female sports reporters prejudiced against children? Look at the people that turn off in droves when the Paralympic Games come on after the Winter Olympic Games finished. I’m sure it is not just men that turn off. I’m sure it is not just men that stop reporting. It is women as well. I am just using this as an example to show it really isn’t about being a woman and being prejudiced against. It’s quite simply a matter of not enough are interested, therefore there is no good business case for telecasting the sports. The Australian Swimming Championships are currently being telecast as much as the Women’s Cricket but there is little support for that and yet we have males competing. On many occasions I have watched and enjoyed the ANZ Netball and the recent Women’s Cricket team. I am male and males play Rugby League but I won’t watch the games at any level simply because I find it boring. There is no “deep rooted cultural issue’ as is being suggested, it really is as simple as what is interesting and what is not. Along with so many other aspects of our daily lives, which reporters like yourself keep trying to convince us are discriminatory or prejudiced against women, it has nothing to do with gender.

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